The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! StoneWall jackson and the other heroes.
ABsALoM DENNIS, aged 81, was buried at De
| Witt, Iowa. Sunday. He drove the stage ii
! New York in 1926 on which the Freemason apos
| tate, William Morgan, left his home for Canada
SOME ONE clipped off 200 names from the
Yankton county ID. To local option petition
after it had been presented TO tine County Com
missioneTs. Twenty-Five dollars reward is
| offered.
SENATOR BILL CHANDLER is not the only thrift
| ty person in the Granite State. There are l32,
| 0O0 depOSitors in its savings banks, and they
! have increased the deposits within year more
| than S4,000,O00.
| The Palouse CIV. IT, Gazette is responsible for
| the following statement: whitman county has
the smallest woman living. She resides three
miles from Pine City, is p years old, twenty
inches high, and weighs thirty-three pounds"
A 16-YEAR-oLD GIRL was arrested in Washing
ton last week charged with breaking into a
house, robbing it of about 500 worth of goods
and then setting it on fire She was wearing
some of the stolen property at the time OF the
arrest.
JOHN OsTERMAN who recently opened hotel
ON the bank of Browns lake, Racine county,
Wis, thought to evade the law by anchoring a
couple of boats on the lake and selling liquor
| from them He sold SS7 worth of beer on July
4, but has since been fined $50 and costs.
PROF ELISHA GRAYs new discovery is called
autobiography, and it is claimed that it will be
possible with its use to write upon sheet Of
paper and have an autographs fac smile OF
the writing reproduced by telegraph 300 miles
away, and probably much greater distance
In st. Luke's Church, birmingham, Eng,
there is a vested choir of young men and young
women The surplices of the young women are
said to be made of Scotch lawn, with plated
backs. The male attendants of the church
think that they (the women) look very pretty
DR.. WEST ctor of Grace church, Grand
RAPIDS, had fifteen persons to preach to Sun
day. The remainder of the members went to
Ottawa he ch The doctor viii announce in
tie prayer meeting, it is reported, that he Will
Preach during the summer at the beach in the
morning and 90 swimming with his congrega-
ton III the afternoon.
BoATMEN on the Seine receive IS francs for
each dead body they find in the river in the de
partment of the Seine. In the two adjoining
departments no reward is paid. 1t has now
been discovered that all dead bodies found
above or below the prescribed limits have been
carefully tOwed down or up stream until they
could be proGtably passed over to the police.
ADvICEs have been received to the effect that
the governments of Belgium and Switzerland
will send one infantry company each to partici
pate in the international military drill in Chi
cago in October next. II is expected that
France will send company from the gradual
ing class of st. Cyr, the West Point of the Re
public. In an interview with Gems. Brentley
and Chetlain, Chicago's representatives now in
Europe, Sir Garnet Wolseiey said in response
Ia special invitation to attend the military en-
campment, that he would be pleased to revisit
the United States of whose citizens he had
many pleasant memories.
Ex-Gov. SHEPHERD was thrown against a rock
while in Mexico and stunned He became de-
| rious for time and his head was terribly
swollen from the erysipelas. He says they tell
this story on him: When was at my worst I
was very DESTROYS of seeing myself in mirror
wanted to see if that head looked as it felt.
The doctor wouldn't let me do it, but one day,
while the attendant was not attending, |
stepped across the room to a looking glass.
This was when one side of my head was bigger
than the other. One eye was bulged out and
the other looked sunken from contrast. They
said that stood intently gazing at my reflec-
ton moment and then exclaimed Hello Ben
Butler, what in the devil are you doing way
down here?'"
A POLICE JUSTICE in the city of New York is
an officer of serious responsibilities This year
Police Justice Duffy, who has served thirteen
years, passed sentence in more than 1900
cases. He says that the most difficult of the
duties of police justice is to act according to
the dictates of his conscience. BY long train
ing he thinks that he always knows when a
prisoner is lying. A guilty prisoners wiSest
course, he declares, is to say: Judge, l am
guilty. | throw myself ON the mercy of the
court" In a case of intOXicatOn or dsorderly
conduct this course is likely to secure his dis
charge if it is a first Otfense. when a woman
weeps before me, >" declares Judge Duffy, Il re-
member that had mother, a sister and nieces
and am apt to let her go. When a man weepS
| think the worse of him. l haven't wept my
self since was 16 years of age"
SAYS the Manager of the Oregon Immigration
Bureau: Il never knew immigration to Wash
ington Territory and Oregon to be as heavy as
| at the present time. The Pacific coast boom be-
gan in California, and is extending north to the
| international line The class of people who are
| taking up land in the north are better than the
| average of past seasons They all have money;
not fortunes, but ufflci Mt to keep them indie
pendent of the farm two years or more
There are no pauper foreigners among them to
make themselves a burden. Most of the people
who go NORTH engage in StockTaiSing or dairy
farming, Washington Territory is considered
unapproachable as a dairy farming country, and
the government and railroad lands are being
taken up rapidly. The completion of the Cali
fornia and Oregon line will assist greatly in
regulating Northern California and Southern
Oregon, and will institute a boom that will have
no precedent
AN Eastern visitor says that a Pacific coast
town is thus launched into existence \ real
estate dealer secures an option to purchase
certain tract of land, has it surveyed and sub
divided into lots. gives it a catching title like
Atzuca, ROsecrans, Providencia, Glendale Mel
rose, or San Juan-by the-Sea and then proceeds
tra of the town is reserved for a S100O or
$50 600 hotel, circulars are distributed dwelling
upon the salubrity of the climate the adapta,
bty of the soil - raise every" ing under the
sun the eXcellen go the water, he insurppsst d
scenery, etc The. IN auction s...3 is carefully
worked up, and the Eastern gudgeon having
heard of the wonderful advance in prices. aud
knowing of no reason why he should not take
advantage of u booming market, fairly scram-
bes for an opportunity to get in The end of
the sale finds the real estate agent ahead S10O0O
or $50, 600 on the transaction.
THE Rabbi of the principal synagogue in Der
lin recently testified as follows relative to
kosher" conforming to ritualistic require
mentsl meat at a trial Of a butcher charged with
offering ''unclean" meat TO Jewish customer:
The Mosaic law requires that the Jew butcher
be person of good reputation and morals and.
after undergoing an eXamnatiC II by the Rabbi
should only exercise his particular function on
the strength of a certificate. Que of the tests
of his fitness for the place consists in promptly
resharpenng his knife, which the Rabbi has
purposeiy blunted During the act Of butcher
ing he has to say certain prayers; he must see
that the blood falls upon ashes or peat, and
above all things, he must avoid being touched
by anyone while in the act. this in itself render.
ing the slaughtered animal uuclcan. He is re-
quired to put his seal upon the carcase, giving
the date on which the animal is killed. No It.
RI, lite is nermittel to eat fowl which has been
xii ed more than three days before
GEN. GEORGE A. SHERIDAN, of Louisiana. is
again in New York where bis go pounds of
ht,c, no liz. a..